Re: My LIFEHOUSE CONCERT STORY...VERY VERY LONG!

April 8, 2003

Hey! Good to know you are back! Sorry you had a rough time with

those snotty girls, but like you said, you got to see them, say Hi,

and hear their songs live!

JennA

> Hey everyone!!!! I am freakin fetchin back!!!!

>

> Actually..to tell you the truth..I got back sunday night. It is

> just...dang..I knew this email was going to be long and have been

> sooo lazy to write it!!! I was not even sure how to start! I will

try

> and try to make this as short as possible..but..I mean..guys..this

is

> about LIFEHOUSE!!!!!!!

>

April 8, 2003

Welcome back girlfriend!

Glad you got to see your guys up close.

Do you know how much you were missed????

People were going " WOOT WOOT "

just trying to fill the void!

Amethyst

My LIFEHOUSE CONCERT STORY...VERY VERY

LONG!

> Hey everyone!!!! I am freakin fetchin back!!!!

>

> Actually..to tell you the truth..I got back sunday night. It is

> just...dang..I knew this email was going to be long and have been

> sooo lazy to write it!!! I was not even sure how to start! I will try

> and try to make this as short as possible..but..I mean..guys..this is

> about LIFEHOUSE!!!!!!!

>

> Okay...so this was my week off and I did eat bad...but not as bad as

> after the LIfehouse concert. I did not want to not fit into my new

> outfit so I was careful what I ate. Then like after the concert I ate

> like 5 krispy creme doughnuts the next day..and like...I just kept

> going with the a & w stuff...blah blah blah. But challenge 2 started

> yesterday and I am off to a great start! Okay..now for what you all

> have been waiting for!

>

> the day of the Lifehouse concert was apirl 4th friday. It started off

> with me taking my time getting beeutiful! I think I looked good.

> Anyway...my husband took me to the venue at noon. we got inside

> actually and they were setting up for the concert. So I said goodbye

> to him..he was worried about leaving me..but I said I would be

> alright. I was soo happy and nervous. Cause when I saw the roadies

> setting up..I was freakin like... " oh my hanna....I am gonna see the

> guys real soon!!!! " sooooo I got to stay in there and watch them set

> up. I was very quiet and tried to stay out of the way so they would

> not make me leave. Then I found my friend from portland. and

> she brought her friend Meagan. I met on the Lifehouse MB. I got

> her in and that was like at 1 oclock. Then I took them into the gym

> place where they were settin up. Meagan said hi to the techies really

> loud and they asked us to leave! ughhh...she just needed to be quiet!

> okay..so we where in the building outside the gym doors till 3 when

> they asked us to leave. so we sat on the outside steps. But...next to

> the building behind a small wall was a tour bus! The marroon tour bus

> of Lifehouse!

> NOw has been to 5 lifehouse concerts and Meagan has been to

> eight! So they have met the guys on several occasions. They had

> brought presents for all the guys. I didn't do that..oh well.. Well

> we saw a limo pull in. It was huge! but we were like...Lifehouse

> would never come in a limo..they just don't have big heads like that.

> soo low and behold who should come out but a whole bunch of smoking

> people from the radio stations all primped and snobby lookin.

> Okay..thank goodness that was not the guys!

> So the three of us keep watching for cars to go into the gate that

> leads to the back of the venue where the guys would be going in.

> hmmmm..soon I see a red mini van...and I run over to the wall where

> and Meagan have been camped out trying to get glimpes of the

> guys in the tour bus. sooo guess who was in there? The lead singer

> Wade and his Wife Braeden! so I was like... " hi jason! " and he

> said hi back but was in a hurry...and I said Hi to Braeden and she

> waved at me. Soooo coooollll...I got to see jason and his wife and

> say hi! Okay...I was pumped! Then.....Rick the drummer comes out.

> and Meagan said they had presents for him. So he met them over

> at the gate and I went with them. Soooo I got to talk to Rick for a

> while! It was the best. He told me he grew up in Dayton WAshington

> which is an hour away from me! And he told me some other things I

> can't tell you guys....sorry! He doesn't want everyone to know..hee

> heee. then his brother SEan who is background vocals and guitar came

> in a truck while we were talking to rick. He came over and rick was

> like this is Kathi from Washington. And I told .. " hey..my little

> girl has curly hair like you. " and he said something like why didn't

> you bring her...and I just told him I was feelin the crowd out. I

> needed to go to one first before I brought a three year old. Soooo I

> had 3 down that I had seen...and 1...my favorite guy.. the bass

> player...left to see!!!!

> soooooo by now it was probably four oclock. I still had till seven

> till the doors opened. But I was havin the best time waiting cause I

> was sooo happy I was there early. It pays to be there soo early cause

> I had already met and seen half the band!!!! So it was all good with

> me! And I was meeting lot's of new people who luved Lifehouse as much

> as me! we were all hangin out on the steps waitin and talkin. And I

> yelled out... " all you lifeshouse fans are soo beautiful and nice!!!

> lifehouse has the most beautiful fans! " ANd we all were like talking

> about rainbow brite cause I have a rainbow brite purse..and like

> fraggle rock...my little ponies...transformers..and all those old

> eighties shows from when I was a kid! I had sooooo much fun waiting

> in line! I hardly ate though that day soo I was kind of sick to my

> stomach but the adrenaline pretty much took over so I could handle

> it! I got a few protein bars down..but that's about it.

>

> Soooo...it was time for the doors to open at 7. a man announced that

> only disposable cameras would be allowed. I had only my digital

> camera...dang it!!! They told those of us with digital we had to take

> it back to the car. UMMMMM... I did not have a car since I was

> dropped off and was there by myself. I mean and Meagan where

> there. They were in front of me. But the first security guy with the

> wand told me to just not worry about it. The second guy took a flash

> light and was looking in purses. He saw my camera and I said I would

> promise not to take pics. He said I had to take it to my car. I told

> him why I couldn't and asked if they could hold it for me. My eyes

> started to tear up since I did not want to get out of line. All that

> time waiting in line...and they wanted me to get out! Sooo I

> convinced a security guy to hold my digital for me..even though they

> were not supposed to. then I ran my butt down to the stage! I was

> right at the front. But said she would hold my place while I

> went to the bathroom. When I came back...the place was fulll...I had

> to ask my way back to my spot..and dang I got some dirty looks! I was

> like..ummm my friend is holding my spot! please can I get thru...I

> have been waiting here since noon! finally I got back up but could

> not get back on the wall so I was just right next to a bit

> behind her. But it was a good spot...untill....all hell broke loose!

>

> When the opening band came out the crowd started to mosh!!!!! and

> then I started to get squeezed along with other people. People

> started crowd surfing and girl in front of me got her tooth chipped

> and there was blood all over her. They took her out before she even

> got to see lifehouse. then all these crappy snotty girls started

> pushing their way up to front...in front of me. I told them that was

> my spot and how long I had been there..they were like.. " good luck

> getting back up here... " ummmmm I decided..hmmmmm...I could push them

> out of the way like half the crowd was doing or I could be better

> than them..and just enjoy what I could. so I still had a good view of

> at least even though my ribs were about to break from being

> squished! then when was singing Stanley Climbfall..I was waving

> to get his attention and he smiled and looked right at me!!!!! No one

> was waving at him...most there were just moshing...and being rude..So

> I was soo happy for that!!! Then I tried soo hard to keep my place up

> front..but suddenly I could not hold it any longer and fell back and

> like this crowd just closed in...and there it was...my front spot was

> gone. Sooooo I decided to get over to the side of the stage ans was

> comfy there for a bit. I stayed there a few songs..but dang there was

> some snotty girls over there. Most of this crowd hardly knew who

> lifehouse was. Most of them were there for the opening band or just

> went because tickets went down to nine dollars. They were not selling

> good so they dropped the price. So these people were soo stuck up and

> gave me dirty looks...but I just smiled back and sang my heart out! I

> had lost half the girls I had been hanging out with so I was solo

> then. But I was sooo into the songs it was like my own world. then I

> wanted to get the bass player, Serge's attention...so I had to make

> my way over to the other side of the stage. I had to cross the mosh

> pit and that took a bit of time..but I did it. People were still

> crowd surfing and getting hurt. Finally I got to the other side. but

> I never could get Serge's attention. He had his eyes closed alot.

> Anyway..they did the encore...and ofcourse hanging by a moment was

> last. And was soo funny...he stepped back from the mic and let

> the crowd sing a verse.....I luved that! towards the end

> there..jason did ask the crowd to calm down since people were getting

> hurt. I think someone came up and asked him to say that. I wished he

> had said it earilier though.

> Anyway..that was the end of the concert. mY friends emily and Meagan

> went and bought a cd cause you could meet the band if you did that.

> They were in line for that. I went to get one and they were all out.

> I did see rick at the table though while I was up in the bleachers

> waiting for emily and meagan and he remembered me and waved back when

> I was waving to him. and Meagan assured me though that the guys

> would come out back to see us after the siginging. so I did not feel

> soo bad I did not get to do the meet and greet. But once we got back

> there just came out....but Iwas sooo happy cause I wanted to

> meet him soooo bad! He shook my hand and kept looking at me when he

> was talking. And we all asked him about more west coast dates and he

> didn't know. They just cancelled their european dates because of the

> war..and just rescheuled them. Soooo they have some summer dates open

> and those of us on the west coast hope to go see them this summer

> around here! I told serge about how when my son Ammon see's him he

> has this little thing he says..he goes " sergio what! " he just started

> saying that one day. Serge thought that was sooo funnny! Soo I did

> not get to talk with except saying hi to him and he looked at

> me in the concert. So hopefully next time. And I did not get any pics

> in the concert. And I did not take any when I met the guys. I thought

> I could get pics with all of them after the concert...but not all of

> them came out... and Meagan really thought they would since they

> had been to soo many concerts.

> Anyway...I got to see and talk to most of the guys..hear my

> songslive...and it was cool. But I will never ever ever go to a

> concert in Utah again. The people are rude the crowd was soo mean!!!

> and Meagan said they had never ever been to a Lifehouse concert

> like that! That is not the kind of music they dooo...I mean you don't

> mosh to lifehouse!!! I wished people had respected them more...I

> think the next one will be better! but the experiance stil had it's

> good points as you can tell. Okay...this was very tiring to write

> this. I am sure it was tiring to read it. I was trying to type as

> fast as I could. Sorry it is soo sloppy and long...ughhhhh told ya it

> would be long!!!!

> Kathi (who's just another name)

>

April 8, 2003

Hi Kathi! So glad to hear you had a good time at the concert.

Those dodos moshing musta thought they were at a heavy metal concert.

How silly! Whatever happened to dancing? I haven't been to a concert

in years-maybe that happens at all concerts now days. You got to

meet most of the band and your Lifehouse internet friends; that is

soo cool! Did you have a good visit with your family?

Glad you're back. We missed your woot! woot! and your awesomeness!

Becky

April 8, 2003

Hey Kathi,

Welcome Back!!! Glad you had a good time...despite the moshers and

all. It's good to have you back!

April 9, 2003

Kathi, I loved your Lifehouse story. I spent like the entire 80's at stage

doors, on tour busses, getting crushed against barricades. You made me all

nostalgic. :-)

My LIFEHOUSE CONCERT STORY...VERY VERY

LONG!

Hey everyone!!!! I am freakin fetchin back!!!!

Actually..to tell you the truth..I got back sunday night. It is

just...dang..I knew this email was going to be long and have been

sooo lazy to write it!!! I was not even sure how to start! I will try

and try to make this as short as possible..but..I mean..guys..this is

about LIFEHOUSE!!!!!!!

Okay...so this was my week off and I did eat bad...but not as bad as

after the LIfehouse concert. I did not want to not fit into my new

outfit so I was careful what I ate. Then like after the concert I ate

like 5 krispy creme doughnuts the next day..and like...I just kept

going with the a & w stuff...blah blah blah. But challenge 2 started

yesterday and I am off to a great start! Okay..now for what you all

have been waiting for!

the day of the Lifehouse concert was apirl 4th friday. It started off

with me taking my time getting beeutiful! I think I looked good.

Anyway...my husband took me to the venue at noon. we got inside

actually and they were setting up for the concert. So I said goodbye

to him..he was worried about leaving me..but I said I would be

alright. I was soo happy and nervous. Cause when I saw the roadies

setting up..I was freakin like... " oh my hanna....I am gonna see the

guys real soon!!!! " sooooo I got to stay in there and watch them set

up. I was very quiet and tried to stay out of the way so they would

not make me leave. Then I found my friend from portland. and

she brought her friend Meagan. I met on the Lifehouse MB. I got

her in and that was like at 1 oclock. Then I took them into the gym

place where they were settin up. Meagan said hi to the techies really

loud and they asked us to leave! ughhh...she just needed to be quiet!

okay..so we where in the building outside the gym doors till 3 when

they asked us to leave. so we sat on the outside steps. But...next to

the building behind a small wall was a tour bus! The marroon tour bus

of Lifehouse!

NOw has been to 5 lifehouse concerts and Meagan has been to

eight! So they have met the guys on several occasions. They had

brought presents for all the guys. I didn't do that..oh well.. Well

we saw a limo pull in. It was huge! but we were like...Lifehouse

would never come in a limo..they just don't have big heads like that.

soo low and behold who should come out but a whole bunch of smoking

people from the radio stations all primped and snobby lookin.

Okay..thank goodness that was not the guys!

So the three of us keep watching for cars to go into the gate that

leads to the back of the venue where the guys would be going in.

hmmmm..soon I see a red mini van...and I run over to the wall where

and Meagan have been camped out trying to get glimpes of the

guys in the tour bus. sooo guess who was in there? The lead singer

Wade and his Wife Braeden! so I was like... " hi jason! " and he

said hi back but was in a hurry...and I said Hi to Braeden and she

waved at me. Soooo coooollll...I got to see jason and his wife and

say hi! Okay...I was pumped! Then.....Rick the drummer comes out.

and Meagan said they had presents for him. So he met them over

at the gate and I went with them. Soooo I got to talk to Rick for a

while! It was the best. He told me he grew up in Dayton WAshington

which is an hour away from me! And he told me some other things I

can't tell you guys....sorry! He doesn't want everyone to know..hee

heee. then his brother SEan who is background vocals and guitar came

in a truck while we were talking to rick. He came over and rick was

like this is Kathi from Washington. And I told .. " hey..my little

girl has curly hair like you. " and he said something like why didn't

you bring her...and I just told him I was feelin the crowd out. I

needed to go to one first before I brought a three year old. Soooo I

had 3 down that I had seen...and 1...my favorite guy.. the bass

player...left to see!!!!

soooooo by now it was probably four oclock. I still had till seven

till the doors opened. But I was havin the best time waiting cause I

was sooo happy I was there early. It pays to be there soo early cause

I had already met and seen half the band!!!! So it was all good with

me! And I was meeting lot's of new people who luved Lifehouse as much

as me! we were all hangin out on the steps waitin and talkin. And I

yelled out... " all you lifeshouse fans are soo beautiful and nice!!!

lifehouse has the most beautiful fans! " ANd we all were like talking

about rainbow brite cause I have a rainbow brite purse..and like

fraggle rock...my little ponies...transformers..and all those old

eighties shows from when I was a kid! I had sooooo much fun waiting

in line! I hardly ate though that day soo I was kind of sick to my

stomach but the adrenaline pretty much took over so I could handle

it! I got a few protein bars down..but that's about it.

Soooo...it was time for the doors to open at 7. a man announced that

only disposable cameras would be allowed. I had only my digital

camera...dang it!!! They told those of us with digital we had to take

it back to the car. UMMMMM... I did not have a car since I was

dropped off and was there by myself. I mean and Meagan where

there. They were in front of me. But the first security guy with the

wand told me to just not worry about it. The second guy took a flash

light and was looking in purses. He saw my camera and I said I would

promise not to take pics. He said I had to take it to my car. I told

him why I couldn't and asked if they could hold it for me. My eyes

started to tear up since I did not want to get out of line. All that

time waiting in line...and they wanted me to get out! Sooo I

convinced a security guy to hold my digital for me..even though they

were not supposed to. then I ran my butt down to the stage! I was

right at the front. But said she would hold my place while I

went to the bathroom. When I came back...the place was fulll...I had

to ask my way back to my spot..and dang I got some dirty looks! I was

like..ummm my friend is holding my spot! please can I get thru...I

have been waiting here since noon! finally I got back up but could

not get back on the wall so I was just right next to a bit

behind her. But it was a good spot...untill....all hell broke loose!

When the opening band came out the crowd started to mosh!!!!! and

then I started to get squeezed along with other people. People

started crowd surfing and girl in front of me got her tooth chipped

and there was blood all over her. They took her out before she even

got to see lifehouse. then all these crappy snotty girls started

pushing their way up to front...in front of me. I told them that was

my spot and how long I had been there..they were like.. " good luck

getting back up here... " ummmmm I decided..hmmmmm...I could push them

out of the way like half the crowd was doing or I could be better

than them..and just enjoy what I could. so I still had a good view of

at least even though my ribs were about to break from being

squished! then when was singing Stanley Climbfall..I was waving

to get his attention and he smiled and looked right at me!!!!! No one

was waving at him...most there were just moshing...and being rude..So

I was soo happy for that!!! Then I tried soo hard to keep my place up

front..but suddenly I could not hold it any longer and fell back and

like this crowd just closed in...and there it was...my front spot was

gone. Sooooo I decided to get over to the side of the stage ans was

comfy there for a bit. I stayed there a few songs..but dang there was

some snotty girls over there. Most of this crowd hardly knew who

lifehouse was. Most of them were there for the opening band or just

went because tickets went down to nine dollars. They were not selling

good so they dropped the price. So these people were soo stuck up and

gave me dirty looks...but I just smiled back and sang my heart out! I

had lost half the girls I had been hanging out with so I was solo

then. But I was sooo into the songs it was like my own world. then I

wanted to get the bass player, Serge's attention...so I had to make

my way over to the other side of the stage. I had to cross the mosh

pit and that took a bit of time..but I did it. People were still

crowd surfing and getting hurt. Finally I got to the other side. but

I never could get Serge's attention. He had his eyes closed alot.

Anyway..they did the encore...and ofcourse hanging by a moment was

last. And was soo funny...he stepped back from the mic and let

the crowd sing a verse.....I luved that! towards the end

there..jason did ask the crowd to calm down since people were getting

hurt. I think someone came up and asked him to say that. I wished he

had said it earilier though.

Anyway..that was the end of the concert. mY friends emily and Meagan

went and bought a cd cause you could meet the band if you did that.

They were in line for that. I went to get one and they were all out.

I did see rick at the table though while I was up in the bleachers

waiting for emily and meagan and he remembered me and waved back when

I was waving to him. and Meagan assured me though that the guys

would come out back to see us after the siginging. so I did not feel

soo bad I did not get to do the meet and greet. But once we got back

there just came out....but Iwas sooo happy cause I wanted to

meet him soooo bad! He shook my hand and kept looking at me when he

was talking. And we all asked him about more west coast dates and he

didn't know. They just cancelled their european dates because of the

war..and just rescheuled them. Soooo they have some summer dates open

and those of us on the west coast hope to go see them this summer

around here! I told serge about how when my son Ammon see's him he

has this little thing he says..he goes " sergio what! " he just started

saying that one day. Serge thought that was sooo funnny! Soo I did

not get to talk with except saying hi to him and he looked at

me in the concert. So hopefully next time. And I did not get any pics

in the concert. And I did not take any when I met the guys. I thought

I could get pics with all of them after the concert...but not all of

them came out... and Meagan really thought they would since they

had been to soo many concerts.

Anyway...I got to see and talk to most of the guys..hear my

songslive...and it was cool. But I will never ever ever go to a

concert in Utah again. The people are rude the crowd was soo mean!!!

and Meagan said they had never ever been to a Lifehouse concert

like that! That is not the kind of music they dooo...I mean you don't

mosh to lifehouse!!! I wished people had respected them more...I

think the next one will be better! but the experiance stil had it's

good points as you can tell. Okay...this was very tiring to write

this. I am sure it was tiring to read it. I was trying to type as

fast as I could. Sorry it is soo sloppy and long...ughhhhh told ya it

would be long!!!!

Kathi (who's just another name)

April 9, 2003

I am so glad you had a good time!